Foxes

Foxes were dog-like carnivores of woodland and farmland, distinctive for their red-orange coats and their eerie plaintive cries. A dog-fox became puzzled at finding Frodo, Sam and Pippin asleep in a fir-wood on the first night of their journey from Hobbiton.[1] Another fox was encountered by Strider and the hobbits as they hiked through the Chetwood after leaving Bree.[2]